MANAGING THE DIGITAL ENTERPRISE
CASE STUDY: RED HAT
About Red Hat
Red Hat, the world's leading open source and Linux provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating system software along with middleware, applications and management solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's Open Source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies with focus on security and ease of management. Red Hat was founded in 1994 by visionary entrepreneurs Bob Young and Marc Ewing. [Source: Red hat, Inc.]
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric S. RaymondOpenEC/B : A Case Study in Electronic Commerce and Open Source Development
Walt ScacchiCoase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm
Yochai BenklerThe Emergence of a New Commercial Actor: Community Managed Software Projects
Siobhan O'MahonyEconomics of Open Source Software
Justin P. Johnson
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